[Qgis-developer] release branch

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Tim,

Oh, I see. Thanks for clarification and apologize for my commits to release 
branch.

> How does sound everyone?  It will mean delaying the release
> announcement for another week probably while we wait for package
> updates to be made.

That would be fine for me. I hope it is not too much trouble for packagers.

Regards,
Marco 

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 12:59:34 Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Marco (and others who may be confused)
>
> So the idea was to create the branch and then only commit any changes
> needed for packaging to the branch. Once the main packages are created
> I will make the source tarball. In reality there should be few if any
> packing changes required post branching (those kind of changes should
> have gone intro trunk in the run up to the tag date of Dec 6).
>
> SVN doesnt really have a concept of a tag since a tag is actually a
> branch that you can commit into too. Since we have had some post
> branching commits, I'm going to suggest the following:
>
> - declare a moritorium on further commits to 0.9.1 branch (Ill look to
> see if I can make it read only some how)
> - get the revision number of the release branch as it stands today
> - make a source tarball
> - ask packagers to refresh their packages to the fixed revision number
> (with my apologies)
>
> How does sound everyone?  It will mean delaying the release
> announcement for another week probably while we wait for package
> updates to be made.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> 2007/12/11, Hugentobler  Marco <marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch>:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > There has been some confusion about what can be commited to the release
> > branch and what not. So I'd like to ask in order to make sure I'm not
> > commiting the wrong things to release branch.
> >
> > Up to know I commited fixes and additional translations to release branch
> > and to trunk ("until the source tarball is created"). Is this how it
> > should be?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Marco
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-- 
Dr. Marco Hugentobler
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
marco.hugentobler at karto.baug.ethz.ch